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Subject: Re: disbling welcome with using admin approve key
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:14:31 -0600 (CST)
To: admiralj @ sinnfree . sinnfree . org (Joseph A. Terrell)
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM, jose @ abcnet . es
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970219232507.842D-100000@sinnfree.sinnfree.org> from "Joseph A. Terrell" at Feb 19, 97 11:28:16 pm
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Joseph A. Terrell writes: ]
> 
> > [ Jose Delgado writes: ]
> > > 
> > > Does someone know how to diable the Welcome message to user, when
> > > using administrative subscribe commands (approve key subscribe list
> > > user)? I want to avoid the automatic welcome message when adding a lot
> > > of address.
> 
> If you have access to the machine running MJ you can edit the subscriber
> file directly.  This will allow you to edit the file any way you wish, an
> MJ doesn't know the difference.  However, be careful doing this!  There is
> no syntax checking with this method, and all addresses *must* be properly
> formatted!!

You also don't have any file locking protection (unless you use medit),
so any (un)subscribe requests fulfilled while you're editing are lost.
If you keep the file locked via medit too long, any (un)subscribe
requests will fail when Mj aborts because it couldn't lock the file.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe



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